Click to play videoNew Delhi: Senior Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt, whose affidavit has implicated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riot cases, says he has never backed down from the truth, but he fears for his family's safety.
"I have said what I had to in Supreme Court. It would be inappropriate for me to say anything more as I am a serving officer," Bhatt told CNN-IBN.
"I filed an affidavit on 14th of this month (April, 2011) in the Supreme Court. I have gone on oath when recording this statement. This time the SIT summoned me under CrPC. I recorded my statement and my statement was recorded on March 23. Whatever I had to say, I have said in the affidavit to the Supreme Court. There is no question of resigning from the service. I have lot of tasks to do," said the police officer.
Bhatt claimed that he never revealed about the meeting where Narendra Modi categorically issued instructions that Hindus should be allowed to express their anger and Muslims should be taught a befitting lesson so that incidents like the burning of Sabarmati Express never happen again in Gujarat because he was never summoned by any forum to appear.
"I was never summoned by any forum to appear before this. It was for the first time that I was summoned by SIT in 2009. I was an intelligence officer and was privy to a lot of information at that time," said Bhatt, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence, State Intelligence Bureau, Gandhinagar, from December 1999 to September 2002.
"All I am doing is keeping the truth. I am telling what I know as and when I am called and asked about. I am duty bound. I have taken a stand, I have given the statement under oath. I am not worried at all. I know I am giving out what is the truth," he said.
"I was intrigued why I was never contacted. I did not write to anyone as I was not supposed to. My immediate boss was aware what had happened. What the Chief Minister had said was communicated to my boss. Mr GC Raigar was my boss. I was under professional obligation. I had to come out under legal obligation. As and when the Supreme Court SC asks, I think documents can be procured. I am duty bound to present before any forum that summons me. My apprehensions have been mentioned in the affidavit. I have never backed out on what I have said," he added.
Bhatt also ruled out his resignation from the IPS after his startling disclosures.
"Not at all. I have 13 more years to go," he said.
The riots in 2002 took place following the burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002, in which 59 kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh were killed. The train burning incident sparked off the Gujarat riots in which over 1,000 people were killed.
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